Arindam Manna is a visual artist from Suri, West Bengal, India. After completing Master’s of Fine arts in Painting, Manna established his practice in Delhi, where he continues to work. His artistic journey began with "Transience and Materiality", a project centered on the Grand Trunk Road in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, examining migration, impermanence and the residue of time. His methodical approach combines fieldwork with meticulous mark-making processes, creating visual records that traverse the boundaries between representation and abstraction.

The artwork is titled “Between Pit and Ridge: Bodies in Motion”. This multidisciplinary work, realized across Drawing, Painting, Photography, Video in form of Installation, examines Arjangarh—a meeting ground of practice, defense and ecological memory—as a living archive of bodily practice, military apparatus and environmental urgencies. It calls for a situated urbanism that honors local wisdom and the intertwined futures of heritage and modernity.

The project is personally rooted in the artist's ongoing process to explore how mobility, temporality and resilience shape our relationship with place. The takeaway for the audience is that the work reimagines urban space through the rhythms of the body and urges them to honor local wisdom and the intertwined futures of heritage and modernity.